EU policy/Documentation

This page intends to give an overview and quick access to documents relating to the Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU.

• OER
• Open Content - A Practical Guide to Using Creative Commons Licences
• Free Knowledge Thanks to Creative Commons Licenses
• PD-Gov
• Free Public Information Brochure
• commons:Category:Public Policy Information Materials

• Adopt a MEP
• MEP Mailings

• Position on the EU 2016 copyright reform proposal
• Wikimedia responses to the copyright consultation (search "Wikimedia" in archive)
• European Commission Copyright Consultation (WMF answers only)
• Statement of Intent
• Position Paper on Copyright White Paper
• Science 2.0 Consultation - We pushed for PD-Gov here
• Wikimedia Letter on FoP to the Commission
• "Platforms Consultation"
• WMF letter on "Platforms Consultation"
• WMF letter on IPRED Consultation
• FKAGEU answers to FoP & ancillary copyright consultation
• WMF letter to the FoP & ancillary copyright consultation
• Wikimedia Deutschland answers to FoP & ancillary copyright consultation
• Answers to the Database Directive Consultation
• Letter to the Commission on Database Rights in the EU
• Feedback on measures to further improve the effectiveness of the fight against illegal content online

• Assessing the economic impacts of adapting certain limitations and exceptions to copyright and related rights in the EU
• Our single market is crying out for copyright reform, Neelie Kroes July 2014
• European Commission Implementation Guidelines for the Public Sector Information Directive

• Expert Seminar on Mass Digitisation and Open Access to Cultural Heritage

• Copyright Reform Resource Pool
• Copying explained with short videos

• see Monitoring Reports

• Wikimania 2011 Talk on Lobbying
• Wikimania 2012 Cool Chapters presentation including lobbying efforts
• Wikimania 2013 Presentation "Hacking Brussels" ^{[link not found]}
• Wikimania 2014 Talk on Liquid Lobbying
• Wikimania 2014 Panel Discussion How should Wikimedia advocate for Free Knowledge
• Wikimedia NL Conferentie 2013 Presentation "Hacking Brussels"
• Wikimedia Conference 2014 Discussion on User-Generated Advocacy
• Big Fat Brussels Meeting minutes
• Big Fat Brussels Meeting Vol.2 minutes
• Big Fat Brussels Meeting Vol.3 minutes
• Big Fat Brussels Meeting Vol.4 minutes

• Foundation Policy and Political Association Guideline
• Wikimedia Movement Strategic Plan Summary

• Freedom of Panorama overview (Commons)
• Freedom of Panorama Study (iRights)
• Freedom of Panorama Study (UniBIT)
• Freedom of Panorama Study (NYU Law/HEC)

• Studies on file-sharing gathered on the LQDN wiki.
• Study on EU harmonisation from a UK perspective
• How Copyright Keeps Works Disappeared
• The sky is rising
• Criticism of OHIM IP contribution study
• EDiMA on information technology and creativity
• Valuation of Unprotected Works: A Case Study of Public Domain Photographs on Wikipedia
• CREATe: Copyright and the Value of the Public Domain
• Copyright and the Value of the Public Domain - An empirical assessment
• The economic value of Wikipedia
• Does Copyright Affect Reuse? Evidence from the Google Books Digitization Project
• Pollock, Rufus. 2008. Forever Minus a Day? Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright Term
• Some other papers

• Copyright on Eiffel Tower lighting
• How Copyright Laws Impoverish Wikipedia
• (German) German public broadcaster offering CC licensed content
• European Commission copyright notice
• (German) Hunderwasserhaus AT-DE FoP court ruling ^{[dead link ]} (w:de:Hundertwasserentscheidung, I ZR 192/00)
• (Italian) Italian Cassazione on reproductions and cultural heritage law (2013)
• (Italian) Order by the soprintendenza of Florence to remove certain PD images from the Italian Wikipedia (2007)
• (Italian) Notice from a municipality to remove photos of Calatrava bridges.

• Wikimedia Policy Issues Survey 2013

• See our strategy pages

• Legislative Observatory
• PreLex
• Who is Who in the EU
• European Commission Consultations